There is still one week until the release of the Moonlight Inspiration video for My Hero Academia.
Yueqi Video Headquarters, 6th floor, conference room.
In the huge conference room, the one-meter-wide and three-meter-long brown wooden table was filled with people. The directors of the animation, television and film departments of Yueqi Video Broadcasting Authorization Procurement Department and nine team leaders gathered here. Everyone's eyes subconsciously turned to the empty seat in the middle.
The waiting time of only a few seconds seemed as long as hours to them.
Xiao Zhengwen lowered his eyes to look at the list in front of him, his hands unconsciously clasped together nervously under the table.
This list clearly listed the broadcast authorizations that Yueqi Video had obtained from major animation companies and film and television companies in the past month. There were animations, TV series and movies. With a quick glance, he saw no less than 20 works on the list.
There are only so many recommendation slots for Yueqi Video. How to allocate the recommendation slots for these nearly 20 works is the only purpose of this meeting.
With the sound of leather shoes stepping on the tile floor, the general manager in a suit and tie slowly walked in. The assistant at the side pulled out a chair for him at the right time. The man put the document with the final distribution results on the table and sat down.
"The company's playlist for next month has been sent to you. As usual, we will now announce Yueqi Video's next main project."
“…June promotes animation, Kaei Animation, My Hero Academia.”
As soon as the man finished speaking, most of the people in the conference room looked at Xiao Zhengwen in unison. Some of them looked understanding, some looked envious... Xiao Zhengwen, as the person involved, did not feel relieved. Instead, the worry and tension in his eyes became even stronger.
The general manager came quickly and left quickly.
After briefly announcing the main project for next week, the entire meeting ended. As the general manager stood up and left first, everyone stood up one after another. When Xiao Zhengwen lowered his head to pack up the things in his hands, people came over from time to time to congratulate him:
"Congratulations, Minister Xiao. With My Hero Academia being featured on the front page, our performance in the second half of the year is guaranteed." This was said sincerely.
Some people were sarcastic and said, "Isn't it true? I heard that Minister Xiao came to Huaying to buy the animation two months in advance, when the script was not even out yet. Minister Xiao spent so much effort to build a good relationship with Huaying, wasn't it just for this day?"
Xiao Zhengwen ignored the sarcastic man, and did not show much surprise at his colleague's envy. He just nodded at the other person with a serious expression.
Xiao Zhengwen actually felt a lot of pressure when it came to purchasing the broadcasting license for "My Hero Academia".
Yueqi Video has suffered repeated setbacks in the animation field recently, and he himself has not produced any decent results. His manager has been a little dissatisfied with him, especially those colleagues in the company who don't get along with him. After the news that he pre-ordered from Huaying came out, the manager didn't say anything on the surface, but he was dissatisfied in his heart after all.
In the final analysis, the only commercial animation that Huaying Animation can produce is "IS", so it cannot be called an animation company with guaranteed sales in the industry.
If he told others that he had contacted Mu Suxing privately so long in advance, it would be fine if My Hero Academia became a big hit, but if the performance of My Hero Academia did not match the recommended resources it received, or if it simply flopped, then he would probably have to consider finding his next job.
This front page recommendation was the result of the above considerations and Xiao Zhengwen's strong recommendation. He was not surprised by this, nor did he feel relieved.
As long as the situation of "My Hero Academia" remains unclear, he will not be able to rest assured.
And now…
He looked at the date on his phone.
There are still seven days until the release of the Moonlight Reveal video for My Hero Academia.
The next morning.
As the wall clock pointed to seven in the morning, the large picture at the banner position on the homepage of Yueqi Video App was punctually replaced with the "My Hero Academia" animation poster, with several main characters lined up in a row, and further down, the title of the movie "My Hero Academia" was printed.
When Qi Ling opened Yueqi Video as usual, she immediately saw the poster in the most prominent recommendation position—
"My Hero Academia? This name... should be a shonen manga, right?" She thought to herself, and her eyes fell on the animation poster. She stared at the characters on the poster for a while: "The style of painting feels very ordinary, and the protagonist's appearance is not handsome..."
As a girl, Qi Ling herself is not very interested in boys' comics. In her opinion, that is the type that only boys like.
In fact, this phenomenon is also very common on Blue Star. So far, all the animations on the market basically cater to the tastes of male audiences, and there are very few boys' comics that are favored by female audiences.
Therefore, Qi Ling's gaze stayed on this conspicuous poster for a few seconds, and soon shifted away with disinterest.
"Alas... Why do I feel like all the animations these days are for boys?" She couldn't help but complain: "Those animation companies are the same, can't they make some animations for girls?"
This was just a small episode, and she soon forgot about this animation with a mediocre style and characters that were far from being as handsome as those in girly comics. In her opinion, whether it was the subject matter or the style, this animation did not seem to be the type that she was interested in, so there was naturally no need to pay attention to it.
Not only Qi Ling, but everyone who opened the Yueqi Video app in the last week saw the animation poster recommended on the Yueqi Video homepage at the first moment.
On the fourth day before the official launch of "My Hero Academia", the anime forum "Wall of Masterpieces".
Topic: Special post for "My Hero Academia" sales tracking and forecast.
Content: [Large image of anime poster]
1st floor: Original work - Kohei Horikoshi
Chief Director-Muxuxing
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2nd floor: Front row. Judging from the news from the previous preview, the response seems to be quite good. I guess the starting price will be 200,000.
Floor 3: Although I feel rationally that the big guys should not lie, to be honest, this is the first time I see so many big guys predicting in unison that an animation will be a hit... It's so weird, it feels like they were bought by Huaying Animation.
4th floor: To sum up, judging from the results of the preview, there are only two possibilities: 1. Huaying Animation paid a large sum of money to bribe all the industry insiders who went to the preview that day. 2. The first two episodes of "My Hero Academia" were so strong that the bigwigs were willing to act as tap water and do free publicity.
5th floor: ... Will your talk of buying off the internet trolls ever stop? Can't someone else make another hit commercial animation besides "IS"
6th floor: I think it should be the latter. Even if Huaying really bribed the big guys who went to the preview that day, it is impossible that everyone was bribed by them, right? I'm willing to pay 200,000 yuan.
Floor 7: Since you all have 200,000 subscribers, I'll just give you 400,000 online subscriptions.
Floor 8: Wow, you really dare to say that. I remember that the online subscription of "IS" was only about 350,000 or 400,000... Just think about it and you will know that it is impossible.
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The second to last day before the official start of the animation, the largest anime spam forum on Blue Planet.
Subject: I just want to know, how many people were waiting for Huaying’s new work like me a month ago
Content: These days, when I open the Yueqi Video app every day, I see that poster with a unique style. It makes me, a person who has no interest in it, a little curious.
1st floor: Is the style of painting unique? I think it's OK. The styles of boys' comics are diverse and there is no fixed standard. The subject matter seems to be quite interesting, but I don't know what the result of the painting will be like. I look forward to it.
2F: Am I the only one who is disappointed... I thought Huaying would continue to make harem comics while the popularity of "IS" was still there. Moreover, the difference between shonen comics and harem comics is so big, can Huaying really do it well
3rd floor: I have watched a little of the "IS" that you guys praised so much before. It is okay as a harem anime, but it is still far from being exciting compared to real shonen anime. As a shonen anime fan, I can't see what is exciting about it. But there is no point in saying more now, let's wait until it officially starts. I want to see what Huaying can do to conquer us shonen anime fans.
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Under such widespread attention, time finally moved forward to the day when "My Hero Academia" would be broadcast.
The official broadcast time given by Huaying Animation is every Saturday at 10:00 am, but as a fan of Huaying Animation, Luo Gaofeng has been waiting since 9:00 am on Saturday. While playing games with his buddies on his mobile phone, he looks at the wall clock from time to time.
As the word "Victory" popped up on the phone page, his best friend who happened to notice his little move couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you looking at?"
"Of course I'm keeping track of the time," Luo Gaofeng said as a matter of course, "Today is the day when Huaying's My Hero Academia starts airing. I've been waiting for almost a month. I've finally waited until today, so of course I have to catch up with the show as soon as possible."
"Is that the Huaying who produced "is"? " Yin Jianxiu asked.
"Yes, seriously, why don't you watch the anime with me later? I tell you, Huaying's animation is really good..." Once Luo Gaofeng opened his mouth, he couldn't help but talk incessantly.
Yin Jianxiu pouted his lips in disinterest and said, "Forget it. I really don't have any confidence in this animation company. The same thing happened with the previous "is". Not only is the male lead a loser, he is also indecisive when it comes to relationships. Besides picking up girls, there's nothing interesting about it. How can it be as interesting as a shonen comic?"
"Isn't that perfect?" Luo Gaofeng seized the opportunity to recommend: "This new animation is a youth anime, you will definitely be interested in it."
Yin Jianxiu shook his head: "I don't believe that an animation company famous for harem animation can do well in shonen comics. You can see for yourself."
Seeing that the other party was so determined, Luo Gaofeng shrugged and stopped persuading him.
Half an hour passed in a flash as a failed qualifying match ended. Seeing that the clock on the wall pointed to ten, Luo Gaofeng immediately quit the game and opened the Yueqi Video app without hesitation. Sure enough, under the animation "My Hero Academia", the words "Episode 1" and "Episode 2" had appeared in the empty space.
Yin Jianxiu was still brooding over his recent defeat: "If the mage in the last round hadn't been such an idiot, we would have won long ago!" He complained, but the voice of Luo Gaofeng was nowhere to be heard.
Yin Jianxiu looked up in surprise, only to find that Luo Gaofeng had quit the game long ago and had already opened the Yueqi Video app, apparently intending to catch up on the anime.
"Isn't it the same no matter when you watch anime?" Yin Jianxiu was depressed. He wanted to persuade Luo Gaofeng to play another game with him, but the other party was concentrating on the video on his mobile phone and obviously didn't hear what he said at all.
Damn it, isn't it just an anime? Why is it that you are so focused on watching it and completely ignoring him
With such resentful mood, Yin Jianxiu himself didn't want to play ranked games anymore. He quit the game and opened Yueqi's video, while poking at "My Hero Academia" which was in the recommended position.
Isn't it just an animation? He wanted to see how good this shonen manga produced by a harem production company could be!
As soon as you click on the animation, the story begins.
Before the theme song begins, the first thing presented is an event that happened when the protagonist was a teenager. In a park under the green shade, a boy who is obviously the young version of the protagonist in the poster is holding back his tears, his hands clenched into fists, his body trembling slightly, but he still insists on protecting another crying boy.
Ah, here we go again.
One of the most common clichéd plots in boys' comics is that the protagonist must have been bullied when he was a child, and then when the protagonist becomes stronger, he will get slapped in the face... How boring.
Yin Jianxiu curled his lips, and his disdain grew even stronger.
The animation in the video continues.
When the boy tremblingly said that he would not allow the other party to bully others again, a trace of contempt appeared on the faces of the three bad boys. At the same time, one of the core settings of the animation, "personality", was also revealed for the first time -
The slightly fat boy spread out his red wings like a dragon, and the whole person floated in the air; the boy in the hat grinned, and his right hand stretched out strangely, showing a seaweed-like shape. The boy standing in the middle curved his lips into a "friendly" smile, and at the same time as his right fist hit his left palm, a flame instantly exploded from the collision of the two hands!
"You quirkless kid, you're trying to act like a hero, stinky!"
As expected, the protagonist and the boy he was protecting were beaten up. When the camera zoomed in to the boy's feet, a voiceover sounded at the same time:
"People...are not created equal."
The camera moves from the boy's purple calves to his slightly blank face, and finally to the endless sky. The chirping of cicadas rises and falls, and the voice from outside the screen becomes increasingly low: "This is a social fact that I recognized when I was four years old."
Seeing this, Yin Jianxiu, who was originally planning to continue complaining, was suddenly stunned, and a sense of sadness and helplessness welled up in his heart.
Why do you like young boys’ hot-blooded comics
Because only in such a world will the blood that has been chilled by the real world boil again because of the idealism in the animation - here, the protagonist will break the rules and turn all the impossibilities in the world into possibilities. The real self may never be able to break free from those shackles and constraints, but the protagonist in the animation will overcome all obstacles along the way until he holds the crown of his dreams.
For them, only such animation can make them forget the coldness and cruelty of reality and recall the passion and dreams of the past.
Just when his mood was getting depressed along with the protagonist's mood, the overall tone of the picture suddenly changed from dull to bright and lively. The grown-up boy, carrying a schoolbag, ran through the crowd of people around him and ran into the distance.
"It was also my...first and last setback."
Yin Jianxiu's heart moved.
It has to be said that this sentence not only saved him from his depressed mood, but also aroused his curiosity - the initial setback was understandable, but why was it said to be the final setback
Did the protagonist start to have smooth sailing from that day on? Or did the protagonist realize this fact and grow up from that day on, and no longer regard those setbacks as setbacks
Although Yin Jianxiu was reluctant to admit it, it was undeniable that at this moment, he did begin to develop a certain interest in this youth comic—he even felt impatient to know the protagonist's next behavior and encounters.
At the same time, in the lobby on the fifth floor of Huaying Office Building.
When Mu Xingxue circled in front of him for the eleventh time, Mu Suxing finally couldn't help it, and he put down the storyboard script in his hand - this time Huaying adopted the mode of making and broadcasting at the same time, so although "My Hero Academia" has already started airing, its storyboard script has not been completed.
"This isn't our first time making an animation, are you really that nervous?" Mu Suxing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I, the chief director, am not nervous, so why should you be nervous?"
Mu Xingxue stopped pacing.
He did not answer Mu Suxing's question immediately. Instead, he glanced at the watch on his wrist and confirmed that such a short time would only be enough for the first-time viewers to see the beginning of the first episode and would not be too early to draw a complete evaluation of the animation. Then he turned to look at Mu Suxing:
"This is our first work since IS. Whether we can gain a foothold in the industry depends on My Hero Academia. Do you think I can be nervous? And, dare you say that you are not nervous at all right now?"
"I'm not nervous," Mu Suxing calmly added a stroke to the storyboard on the table, saying without looking up, "I should be nervous. I was already nervous on the day of the preview. The industry satisfaction rate for My Hero Academia is as high as 95%, and all professionals are satisfied. So what do I have to worry about?"
"What about subscriptions?" Mu Xingxue obviously didn't relax because of what he said - in fact, it was quite the opposite. He looked even more nervous now. "It's because the preview received such good reviews that I'm even more nervous. Since the preview that day, they all praised My Hero Academia to the skies. If we fail this time, where will Huaying put our faces?"
"In your opinion, what score is considered passing?" Mu Suxing suddenly asked.
Mu Xingxue was stunned for a moment. He thought for a while, then he said thoughtfully: "I don't ask to be comparable to "IS", but at least I can't drop too badly. As long as the subscription can reach 200,000 this time and rank in the top three, I think it's acceptable and not embarrassing."
He believed that his bottom line for what he considered to be qualified was already quite high - if he said this to others, he would probably be criticized to death. After all, in the history of Blue Star Animation so far, the number of online subscriptions exceeded 200,000, which could be counted on one hand.
Under such circumstances, Mu Xingxue said that "My Hero Academia" must have at least 200,000 and be ranked in the top three in the overall ranking to be considered passing - if others heard this, they would definitely say how arrogant he was.
But soon, Mu Xingxue discovered that there was someone here who was even more arrogant than him—
"Then you don't have to worry now." Compared with Mu Xingxue's anxiety, Mu Suxing was calm at the moment: "If it's the small goals you mentioned, it's relatively easy for My Hero Academia to achieve them."
Mu Xingxue:
Even though Mu Xingxue knew that Mu Xuxing had always been confident in his work, he was still a little surprised at this point: "Are you serious?"
"What else?"
Mu Suxing answered straightforwardly, as if he had not thought about the possibility of failure at all. This not only did not reassure Mu Xingxue, but made him even more confused: "Are you so confident in My Hero Academia?"
Muxuxing smiled gently.
He didn't know what kind of reviews the opening of "My Hero Academia" received among the audience in another dimension, but it was conceivable that even if it was good, it would probably be above average at best, and it couldn't be higher, let alone cause a stunner like the preview of "My Hero Academia" on Blue Star.
The reason is simple.
In another dimension, when "My Hero Academia" came out, the category of boys' comics had actually begun to decline gradually, because many more classic and excellent comics had already used the plot routines that could be written. Although "My Hero Academia" absorbed the advantages of comics such as "Naruto" and "One Piece" while retaining its own strengths, it was only that.
Who hasn’t watched “Naruto” and “One Piece”
But Blue Star is different.
This world does not have classic boys' comics like "Naruto" and "One Piece", and the audience's aesthetic standards have not been raised to such a level. Even the boys' comics on Blue Star still remain at the stage of "mainly serving male audiences and habitually ignoring the female market."
This is not the case with My Hero Academia.
Mu Suxing raised his head and looked at the time displayed in the lower right corner of the notebook in front of him: At this time, the audience who were the first to follow the show should have seen the middle part of the first episode, right
He recalled the day when, after watching the first two episodes at the preview, everyone had a look of amazement on their faces that lasted for a long time.
If this is the case for professionals, then... what about ordinary audiences who have never been exposed to boys' comics such as "Naruto" and "One Piece"
In a different dimension where hot-blooded youth comics like Naruto and One Piece were first released, "My Hero Academia" has achieved quite good commercial results. So in a world without these two, what kind of impact will "My Hero Academia", which has absorbed a lot of the long-lasting qualities of hot-blooded youth comics, bring to the audience
Muxuxing smiled slightly.
He is looking forward to it.
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